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Oncology Fellow. Scientist. Entrepreneur. Turning basic science into medicine. Crowdsourcing precision oncology wisdom with @TumorBoardTues
Apr 20, 2023 8 tweets 47 min read
@TumorBoardTues @JenniferLitton @marijasullivan @MPishvaian @MDAndersonNews @BreastCaupdates @BRCAUmbrella @hoperugo @Dr_RShatsky 2/5 #TumorBoardTuesday
Take🏠:
✅ 🧬test 🗝️! Biomarkers 👉 best tx
✅ OlympiA: OS & IDFS⬆️w Olaparib- gBRCAm
✅ MonarchE: IDFS⬆️ w abema +ET- HR+
✅ Fertility pres & interrupting adj tx (if desired) for pregnancy
📚@JenniferLitton @marijasullivan’s thread
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1648476… @TumorBoardTues @JenniferLitton @marijasullivan @MPishvaian @MDAndersonNews @BreastCaupdates @BRCAUmbrella @hoperugo @Dr_RShatsky 3/5 #TumorBoardTuesday
Thursday Case🎀

🎥 TBT in a video
@marijasullivan summarizes adj tx based on biomarkers. How to approach pts w gBRCA1/2m & HR+? Need more data!

🔹gBRCAm👉 Olaparib x 1y
🔹 HR+👉 Abemaciclib + ET x 2y -> ET; data expected on other CDK4/6i soon (ribociclib)
Mar 24, 2023 12 tweets 79 min read
@TumorBoardTues @shafiarahman_ @RischZack @MPishvaian @ColonCancerCoal @colontown @coloncancermike @GlobalCRC 2/6 #TumorBoardTuesday
Thurs Case🎀

#mCRC & #EGFR tx:
✅Anti-EGFR useful in RAS/RAF WT; debate re: timing vs anti-VEGF
✅Pt centered discussion including SEs 🗝️
✅Emerging data: EGFR re-tx, using ctDNA to guide

📚@shafiarahman_ @RischZack’s thread:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1638330… @TumorBoardTues @shafiarahman_ @RischZack @MPishvaian @ColonCancerCoal @colontown @coloncancermike @GlobalCRC 3/6 #TumorBoardTuesday
🎥 TBT in a vid- Part 1:

@shafiarahman_ 's approach: pt eligible for EGFR-directed tx in #metastatic #CRC
🔹RAS/RAF WT- more important than side
🔹Bev or pan 1L? Trend toward pan, but is 🗝️actually that pt gets anti-EGFR in tx, 🚫necessarily 1L?
Mar 17, 2023 9 tweets 56 min read
@TumorBoardTues @brian_rini @JVentoMD @MPishvaian @Uromigos @JoshLangMD @renalandurology @UroDocAsh 2/5 #TumorBoardTuesday
Thurs Case🎀

Take🏠msgs:
✅ Pembro ONLY approved adj IO in RCC
✅ 3 recent trials w IO failure: nivo/ipi, atezo & periop nivo
✅ Must balance risks vs benefits- shared decision-making 🗝️

📚@brian_rini @JVentoMD’s thread:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1635792… @TumorBoardTues @brian_rini @JVentoMD @MPishvaian @Uromigos @JoshLangMD @renalandurology @UroDocAsh 3/5 #TumorBoardTuesday
Thurs Case🎀

🎥 TBT in a video
High risk #RCC, pembro= DFS advantage, but w cost- Grade 3 AEs= 32%. High risk #RCC defined by:
🔹Stage II w sarcomatoid features
🔹Stage III+
🔹Regional LN+/M1 disease

Quick overview of adj IO decision making:
Mar 10, 2023 11 tweets 76 min read
@TumorBoardTues @DrSteveMartin @DAielloMD @MPishvaian @NarjustFlorezMD @EGFRResisters @lcrf_org @ADesaiMD @GDutcherMD 2/5 #TumorBoardTuesday
Thurs Case🎀

Take🏠msg:
✅ctDNA= both tx decision making & MRD in #NSCLC
✅Identify actionable muts in dz where a bx not possible
✅Pros (serum test) & cons ($, inability to multiplex with IHC- aka PD-L1 status)

📚The thread:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1633271… @TumorBoardTues @DrSteveMartin @DAielloMD @MPishvaian @NarjustFlorezMD @EGFRResisters @lcrf_org @ADesaiMD @GDutcherMD 3/5 #TumorBoardTuesday
Thurs Case🎀

🎥 TBT in a video
ctDNA + tissue-based NGS= highest sensitivity (do NOT miss actionable mutations in #NSCLC).
ctDNA can be used to:
🔹Identify actionable mutations
🔹Track disease status (MRD)
🔹Adapt targeted therapies based on 2dary muts
Mar 3, 2023 10 tweets 57 min read
@TumorBoardTues @drsarahsam @PTarantinoMD @stolaney1 @MPishvaian @BreastCaupdates @BCRFcure @BCAction @LivingBeyondBC @RenoHemonc 2/5 #TumorBoardTuesday
Case🎀

✅CDK4/6i +endocrine tx= 1L HR+ mBC
✅Ribo =⬆️OS; select based on shared decision
✅After prog on CDK4/6i, eval muts (ESR1, PIK3CA)➡️SERD vs PIK3CAi
✅Benefit in adj- monarchE

📚Here’s @drsarahsam @PTarantinoMD’s thread
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1630734… @TumorBoardTues @drsarahsam @PTarantinoMD @stolaney1 @MPishvaian @BreastCaupdates @BCRFcure @BCAction @LivingBeyondBC @RenoHemonc 3/5 #TumorBoardTuesday
Case🎀

🎥 TBT in a video: HR+ #mBC tx has changed significantly, esp in 2L setting.

Check out this SHORT video w algorithm to approach tx after progression on CDK4/6i:

A bigger and bigger role for 🎯 medicine to select next best therapy!
Feb 24, 2023 18 tweets 146 min read
@TumorBoardTues @ShrutiPatelMD @NarjustFlorezMD @LungAssociation @DrSteveMartin @FawziAbuRous @esinghimd @RenoHemonc @HemOncFellows 2/5 #TumorBoardTuesday
Thurs Case🎀
✅Biomarker - sq cell #LC, chemoIO is the SOC
✅Pembro, cemi, ipi/nivo approved in 1L squamous cell lung cancer—must be paired with chemo if PD-L1 TPS < 50%
✅ irAEs can be very serious- early, multi-D mgmt is 🗝️

@TumorBoardTues @ShrutiPatelMD @NarjustFlorezMD @LungAssociation @DrSteveMartin @FawziAbuRous @esinghimd @RenoHemonc @HemOncFellows 3/5 #TumorBoardTuesday
Thurs Case🎀

📽️TBT video wrap up:

IO has fundamentally changed 🫁 cancer tx.
Choosing the right strategy in squamous cell lung ca largely based on PD-L1 status; we’re hoping for more, & better, biomarkers in the future.
Feb 16, 2023 14 tweets 89 min read
@TumorBoardTues @arkhaki @glovedoc @PGrivasMDPhD @rafee_talukder @MPishvaian @Uromigos 2/5 #TumorBoardTuesday
Case🎀

Take🏠
✅For plat ineligible, pembro=1L option
✅4 cycles of plat tx ➡️ IO maint equally efficacious to 6 cycles
✅Early prog predicts⬇️2L IO benefit
✅💔Myocarditis irAE needs aggressive mgmt

📚@arkhaki @glovedoc’s thread
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1625661… @TumorBoardTues @arkhaki @glovedoc @PGrivasMDPhD @rafee_talukder @MPishvaian @Uromigos 2.5/5 #TumorBoardTuesday

Bonus: @PGrivasMDPhD & @rafee_talukder recently discussed platinum eligibility & tx options- take a look here:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1612977…
Feb 10, 2023 16 tweets 113 min read
@TumorBoardTues @drteplinsky @stolaney1 @hoperugo @dradityabardia @BreastCaupdates @BCRFcure @MBCNbuzz 2/5 #TumorBoardTuesday
Take🏠msgs:
✅HER2 low= 1+ to 2+ IHC, -FISH
✅T-Dxd approved in 1L HER2 low
✅Watch tox, esp ILD (need reg CT thorax)!
✅TROP-2 ADCs an option (Sacituzumab govitecan); choose based on pt profile, agent tox

📚@drteplinsky’s thread:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1623124… @TumorBoardTues @drteplinsky @stolaney1 @hoperugo @dradityabardia @BreastCaupdates @BCRFcure @MBCNbuzz 3/5 #TumorBoardTuesday
🎥 TBT in a video
New 1L T-DXd option for patients w #mBC (HER2 low, ER/PR-).

T-DXd is an antibody drug conjugate (ADC), tethering deruxtecan payload to HER2 ab. Improvements over chemo in mOS and PFS, but watch carefully for ILD and all toxicities!
Oct 21, 2022 8 tweets 51 min read
@TumorBoardTues @drteplinsky @MPishvaian @PTarantinoMD @DFCI_BreastOnc @KariWisinski_MD @JaniceTNBCmets @her2bc 2/4 #TumorBoardTuesday
Thurs Case🎀

Take🏠messages:
#HER2+ #BreastCancer
✅Localized, early ➡️neoadj tx w chemo + anti-HER2
✅⬆️DFS w T-DM1 for residual disease
✅Future role for T-DXd?

📚We captured @drteplinsky’s discussion in this moment: twitter.com/i/events/15831… @TumorBoardTues @drteplinsky @MPishvaian @PTarantinoMD @DFCI_BreastOnc @KariWisinski_MD @JaniceTNBCmets @her2bc 3/4 #TumorBoardTuesday
Thursday Case🎀

📷 TBT in an image: Take a 👀at a (simplified) guide to treatment of early stage HER2+, localized #BreastCancer!

We review KATHERINE and use of ADCs to improve OS with residual disease. Is there an evolving role for T-DXd? Image
Oct 7, 2022 7 tweets 43 min read
@TumorBoardTues @n8pennell @MPishvaian @ShrutiPatelMD @NarjustFlorezMD @OncBrothers @jillfeldman4 @Joshua_Reuss @JineshGheeya @ClevelandClinic 2/4 #TumorBoardTuesday
Thurs Case🎀
Take🏠
#EGFRm #NSCLC:
✅Wait on NGS- IO +TKI=⬆️tox
✅Osimertinib= ex19, 21m
✅New ADCs, small molecules= future options
✅ Re-bx on prog EGFRm- rule out small cell transformation

📚We captured @n8pennell’s discussion:
twitter.com/i/events/15780… @TumorBoardTues @n8pennell @MPishvaian @ShrutiPatelMD @NarjustFlorezMD @OncBrothers @jillfeldman4 @Joshua_Reuss @JineshGheeya @ClevelandClinic 3/4 #TumorBoardTuesday
Thursday Case🎀

📷 #TBT in an image: we’ve summarized some key pts re: EGFRm #NSCLC & emerging data- hope to see more ADCs as 3L options for pts with EGFRm disease in the future! Image
Sep 23, 2022 13 tweets 92 min read
@TumorBoardTues @maryam_lustberg @JasmineSukumar @MPishvaian @JaniceTNBCmets @drteplinsky @ParamMD 2/ #TumorBoardTuesday
Thurs Case🎀

Take🏠messages :
PIK3CA mutations in ER+ #mBC
✅PIK3CA mut are common- 20-30% of all #BreastCancer & 40%+ of ER+ #mBC
✅PIK3CAm are present in founder clones!

📚We captured as much of the discussion as we could:
Pt 1 twitter.com/i/events/15719… @TumorBoardTues @maryam_lustberg @JasmineSukumar @MPishvaian @JaniceTNBCmets @drteplinsky @ParamMD 3/5 #TumorBoardTuesday
Thursday Case🎀

Take🏠messages (Part 2):
✅Alpelisib is a PIK3CA inhib= 5.3 mo ⬆️in PFS
✅Side effect mgmt is key- esp. 💩diarrhea,
🍦hyperglycemia
✅Personalized medicine needs personalized side effect mgmt

Part 2 of our convo twitter.com/i/events/15729…
Sep 9, 2022 8 tweets 44 min read
@TumorBoardTues @NarjustFlorezMD @ShrutiPatelMD @MPishvaian @LatinxOncology @dawood_findakly @LungAssociation 2/3 #TumorBoardTuesday
Thurs Case🎀

Take🏠messages:

✅3 agents (pembro, atezo, cempilimab) 👍🏽PD-L1 TPS >50% in 1L
– No head to head ICI comparisons
✅OS BETTER w IO alone vs chemo
✅💰tox huge problem!
📚We captured the convo in this moment:
twitter.com/i/events/15675… @TumorBoardTues @NarjustFlorezMD @ShrutiPatelMD @MPishvaian @LatinxOncology @dawood_findakly @LungAssociation 2.5/3 #TumorBoardTuesday
Thurs Case🎀

Key factors to choose ICI (in absence of head to head trials):
- Pt experiences/preferences
- Dosing schedule
- $$$ toxicity

The good news: across 3 separate agents (pembrolizumab, atezolizumab, cemiplimab) OS is BETTER w IO alone vs chemo Image
Sep 2, 2022 6 tweets 38 min read
@TumorBoardTues @HosseinBorghaei @ShrutiPatelMD @KevinCalsina @DrRoyHerbstYale @NarjustFlorezMD @MPishvaian @EricaMarieRomn1 @Latinamd @KinhHoang_MD 1/3 #TumorBoardTuesday
Case🎀

Take🏠messages:
In unresectable stage III #NSCLC:
✅ChemoXRT -> IO is SOC
✅STK11 = ⬇️response to IO, but IO still👍🏼after chemoXRT
✅New IO combos- COAST trial ongoing

📚We captured @HosseinBorghaei’s discussion:
twitter.com/i/events/15648… @TumorBoardTues @HosseinBorghaei @ShrutiPatelMD @KevinCalsina @DrRoyHerbstYale @NarjustFlorezMD @MPishvaian @EricaMarieRomn1 @Latinamd @KinhHoang_MD 2/3 #TumorBoardTuesday
Case🎀

📷 TBT in an image:

We summed it up in a graphic- check out management of unresectable stage III #NSCLC, with updated data from PACIFIC, + exciting data from ongoing COAST trial (evaluating anti-CD73 w ICI; anti-NKG2A w ICI).
Aug 19, 2022 7 tweets 50 min read
@TumorBoardTues @hoperugo @laura_huppert @ErikaHamilton9 @MPishvaian @PTarantinoMD @stolaney1 @drteplinsky @JaniceTNBCmets @UCSFCancer 2/3 #TumorBoardTuesday
Thurs Case🎀

Take🏠:
✅HER2 LOW= IHC1+ OR IHC2+ w - ISH (67% HR+!)
✅T-DXd= after 1L chemo in HER2 low
✅Careful monitoring for ILD!

📚We captured @hoperugo & @LauraHuppert’s discussion in below:

twitter.com/i/events/15588…

twitter.com/i/events/15601… @TumorBoardTues @hoperugo @laura_huppert @ErikaHamilton9 @MPishvaian @PTarantinoMD @stolaney1 @drteplinsky @JaniceTNBCmets @UCSFCancer @LauraHuppert 2.75/3 #TumorBoardTuesday

Check out this graphic outlining the key role for ADCs in the tx of HER2 low #MBC after prior 1L chemo and endocrine therapy.

Hoping for even more changes in the near future w
DB-06! Image
Aug 12, 2022 10 tweets 59 min read
@TumorBoardTues @brian_rini @DrChoueiri @RenoHemonc @tompowles1 @CParkMD @RCCadvocate @EricaMarieRomn1 @jacobadashek 2/5 #TumorBoardTuesday
Thursday Case🎀

Take🏠:

✅High risk feat= consider adj tx
✅Sunitinib= FDA ☑️; can be hard to tolerate
✅Pembro= FDA ☑️ w DFS benefit
✅irAE mgmt - gr3+= steroids

📚We captured @brian_rini’s discussion in this moment: twitter.com/i/events/15552… @TumorBoardTues @brian_rini @DrChoueiri @RenoHemonc @tompowles1 @CParkMD @RCCadvocate @EricaMarieRomn1 @jacobadashek 3/5 #TumorBoardTuesday
Thursday Case🎀

📷 TBT in an image: 👀out a clinical algorithm 📊for adj therapy in #RCC.

Some pearls re: irAE mgmt & addtl info to help choose a patient appropriate adjuvant regimen! Image
Aug 5, 2022 11 tweets 83 min read
@TumorBoardTues @dradityabardia @ArielleMedford @Latinamd @EricaMarieRomn1 @HillStirSci @ErikaHamilton9 @stolaney1 @PTarantinoMD 2/5 #TumorBoardTuesday
Thurs Case🎀

Take🏠messages

✅BRCAm= 10-20% of TNBC!
✅PD-L1 CPS>10= PFS & OS benefit w/ IO in mTNBC
✅PARPi= PFS benefit
✅Biomarkers, side effects, pt pref key

📚We captured much of @dradityabardia @ariellemedford’s discussion: twitter.com/i/events/15548… @TumorBoardTues @dradityabardia @ArielleMedford @Latinamd @EricaMarieRomn1 @HillStirSci @ErikaHamilton9 @stolaney1 @PTarantinoMD 3/5 #TumorBoardTuesday
Thursday Case🎀

How do you choose IO vs PARPi in #TNBC w #BRCA mutation? Check out the summary and algorithm below!
Important to know there are more 2L options as well, including sacituzumab-gov & other ADCs. New trials evaluating IO+ PARPi–stay tuned!
Jul 22, 2022 15 tweets 77 min read
@TumorBoardTues @PTarantinoMD @CaterinaSpo @ADesaiMD @silke4senate @DrLauraEsserman @BRCAUmbrella @hoperugo @SusanGKomen @ErikaHamilton9 @stolaney1 1/8 #TumorBoardTuesday

🔬🧬Discussion on 1L treatment for BRCA+ #MBC led by @PTarantinoMD @CaterinaSpo #BreastCancer

➡️Here’s the week's Thursday Case 🎀

👉Don’t forget your🆓 #CME credit by answering 1 quick❓
CME🔗: integrityce.com/tbt
CME eval🔗: integrityce.com/tbteval @TumorBoardTues @PTarantinoMD @CaterinaSpo @ADesaiMD @silke4senate @DrLauraEsserman @BRCAUmbrella @hoperugo @SusanGKomen @ErikaHamilton9 @stolaney1 2/8 #TumorBoardTuesday
Thursday Case🎀

Take🏠messages for germline #BRCAm & 2L tx in #BreastCancer
✅BRCAm fairly common - 10-20% of #TNBC
✅PARPi approved in met, BRCAm dz
✅Fast responses, with ORR > chemo

📚Much of @PTarantinoMD @CaterinaSpo’s chat👇🏽
twitter.com/i/events/15487…
Jul 15, 2022 17 tweets 95 min read
@TumorBoardTues @CharuAggarwalMD @ADesaiMD @Latinamd @PTarantinoMD @LealTiciana @NarjustFlorezMD 1/8 #TumorBoardTuesday
🔬🧬@CharuAggrawalMD @ADesaiMD taught us about EGFR mutations in #LungCancer–specifically, new 2L strategies for EGFRexon20m.

➡️Here's this week's Thursday Case🎀
Pick up your 🆓#CME
ALL CME 🔗: integrityce.com/tbt
CME eval🔗: integrityce.com/tbteval @TumorBoardTues @CharuAggarwalMD @ADesaiMD @Latinamd @PTarantinoMD @LealTiciana @NarjustFlorezMD 2/8 #TumorBoardTuesday
Thurs Case🎀

Take🏠messages:
We discussed #EGFR mutations in #LungCancer
✅Not all EGFR mutations are the same!
✅Osimertinib=tx for most activating EGFR mutations
✅…but exon20insmut more resistant to TKIs
✅Amivantamab, mobocertinib= 2L strategies
Jul 1, 2022 16 tweets 94 min read
@TumorBoardTues @Dr_RShatsky @PTarantinoMD @ErikaHamilton9 @UCSDCancer @KariWisinski_MD @marina_sharifi @JPoteralaMD @LaurenBzak @benjiwal @drteplinsky @MarkRobsonMD 2/11 #TumorBoardTuesday
Thurs Case🎀
Take🏠:
#TNBC &neoadjuvant tx
✅KEYNOTE-522= new standard of care
– Pembro+chemo in neoadj= BEST pCR so far
– Caveat: only for T2+ TNBC
✅Adding pembro may have ⬆️benefit in RCB II
📚We captured much of chat:
p1: twitter.com/i/events/15423… @TumorBoardTues @Dr_RShatsky @PTarantinoMD @ErikaHamilton9 @UCSDCancer @KariWisinski_MD @marina_sharifi @JPoteralaMD @LaurenBzak @benjiwal @drteplinsky @MarkRobsonMD 3/11 #TumorBoardTuesday
Thurs Case🎀
Take🏠msgs (cont’d):
✅IO NOT shown to add benefit in metastatic dz
– Atezolizumab approval in mTNBC withdrawn
✅Standard of care – multi-d team
✅No current evidence to hold IO pre-op
P2: twitter.com/i/events/15425…
Jun 17, 2022 15 tweets 21 min read
1/8 IT’S #TumorBoardTuesday CASE WRAP UP TIME!

🫁@NarjustFlorezMD @ShrutiPatelMD taught us about EGFR mutated #NSCLC & adjuvant therapy–rapidly changing field. Summary below!

👉Don’t forget to grab🆓#CME (AMA/MOC) w 2 quick❓ CME eval & rationale🔗: integrityce.com/tbteval Image 2/8 #TumorBoardTuesday
Thurs Case🎀

Take🏠-pt 1
We discussed #NSCLC & EGFRm
✅EGFR mutations:
🔹Female>Male;
🔹Never smoker >> smoker
✅NEED‼️NGS data‼️BEFORE systemic tx. Order panel of common EGFR muts if limited time.

We captured much of chat:
P1: twitter.com/i/events/15369…
May 27, 2022 20 tweets 94 min read
@TumorBoardTues @MPishvaian @SushmaJonna @Latinamd @GDutcherMD @Empoweringpts9 @ADesaiMD @JackWestMD @DrSteveMartin @esinghimd @GO2Foundation 1/13 #TumorBoardTuesday #LCSM
➡️Here’s this week's Thursday Case🎀!

🧬@Latinamd @GDutcherMD took us through METex14 skipping in older pts with 🫁#NSCLC.

👉Get 🆓#CME credit with quick❓

CME eval 🔗: integrityce.com/tbteval

@SylvesterCancer @TumorBoardTues @MPishvaian @SushmaJonna @Latinamd @GDutcherMD @Empoweringpts9 @ADesaiMD @JackWestMD @DrSteveMartin @esinghimd @GO2Foundation @SylvesterCancer 2/13 #TumorBoardTuesday
Thurs Case🎀

Take🏠points:

#LungCancer= molecular disease

✅IDEAL=wait for NGS before tx
✅Send tissue NGS & ct🧬
✅MET mut= RTK driver- rare!
🔷MET exon 14 skipping best detected w RNAseq
🔷Capmatinib/tepotinib= FDA👍🏽
✅METi side effects: 🤨EDEMA